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WASHINGTON — Even though she won't be running for Senate, Cindy Sheehan isn't disappointing anyone when it comes to being either a vocal leader or outlandish character in the anti-war movement. "I think we need to duplicate her 10,000-fold. We need more people who have the courage to stand up for what's right and not be intimidated by bullies," said Rev. Deborah Lake, a Chicago resident who was in Washington a week and a half ago to protest President Bush's State of the Union address. "The more she talks, the more problems she seems to create for herself — either...

Just before President Bush entered the Capitol for his State of the Union Address, a security guard looked over and noticed that the new darling of the extreme political left, Cindy Sheehan, had removed her outer jacket revealing a shirt that read, “2,245 Dead. How many more?” The Capitol police immediately arrested her, put her in handcuffs and led her away. Wednesday they apologized to her and admitted what they did was a mistake giving her all the encouragement necessary for her to file a class action lawsuit and have a good chance of winning it. I thought “Dumb and...

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan says she intends to sue over her arrest last night just prior to President Bush's State of the Union address, as she displayed a shirt proclaiming the number of dead American soldiers from the ongoing conflict in Iraq. "I am so upset and sore it is hard to think straight," Sheehan writes in her online diary. "I have some lawyers looking into filing a First Amendment lawsuit against the government for what happened tonight. I will file it. It is time to take our freedoms and our country back. I don't want to live in a...

Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan's was arrested at Tuesday night's State of the Union address after she refused to yield to warnings from Capitol Hill police to cover up an anti-war T-shirt she was wearing underneath her coat. Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider told the Associated Press that Sheehan kept the anti-war slogan covered until she took her seat. When they noticed her politically charged attire, police warned Sheehan that such displays were not allowed. The celebrated anti-war protester ignored the warnings, police said. Police handcuffed Sheehan and escorted her from the gallery about 15 minutes before the president arrived.